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Rugbyas spot in the limelight at a home World Cup comes with divisive attention from all sides of the political spectrum

Even when heas not playing, all eyes are on Antoine Dupont. With the France captain seemingly closing in on a freakishly rapid return to action after fracturing his cheekbone, the hostsa hopes for World Cup glory on home soil appear to be back on track. Les Bleusa star player has inevitably been the face of the competition, his growing renown attracting media attention from all sectors a some of it, though, has been very much unwelcome.

After the opening-night win over New Zealand, the far-right weekly magazine Valeurs Actuelles a which notably backed Aric Zemmouras presidential bid last year a ran a rugby-focused issue: aLa France Rugbya. The front page featured Dupont and actor Jean Dujardin, who starred in the opening ceremony, and read: aWell-behaved supporters, patriot players, exemplary values: the recipe for a well-rooted sport thatas a model to society.a

• Pool A: Uruguay 36-26 Namibia
• Des Sethie sent off as discipline costs outsiders

Uruguay secured their first win at this yearas Rugby World Cup, fighting back to beat Namibia 36-26 in their Pool A meeting in Lyon.

Namibia led 14-0 early on and 23-12 soon after half-time, but were punished for ill-discipline as their bid for a first-ever World Cup win fell short. Des Sethie saw his yellow card for a high tackle upgraded to a red, while Johan Coetzee and captain Tjiuee Uanivi were also sent to the sin bin.

Claimants say European countries are breaching their human rights by failing to take adequate action to tackle global heating

An 11-year-old girl from Portugal sat inside the grand chamber of the European court of human rights on Wednesday to face 86 lawyers from 32 nations in the worldas largest climate legal action.

Mariana Agostinho was alongside her brother and sister, and her cousins, two rows back from 17 human rights judges.

Watchdog says there is insufficient evidence Lord Chadlington breached rules over APS50m in contracts

A Conservative peer has been cleared of breaking lobbying rules for a second time by the House of Lords watchdog over introducing a company that was awarded government PPE contracts worth APS50m.

The watchdog had been asked to reopen his investigation into Lord Chadlington after it emerged that there was an exchange with the government that had not been fully provided to his first inquiry.

Exclusive: Business leaders and politicians in north of England say scrapping high-speed rail link would threaten businesses and jobs

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Abandoning high-speed rail in the north of England would be an aappalling dereliction of responsibilitya risking tens of thousands of jobs and athe final nail in the coffina for levelling up, political and business leaders have warned.

Rishi Sunak is considering scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2 despite a furious response from senior Conservatives and business chiefs.

Sweet Briar Marshes has been created in heart of city with fewer public footpaths than any other in England and Wales

Hidden between a hectic ring road, a chemicals factory and housing estates are 36 hectares (90 acres) of aa green beating heart, pumping naturea into the surrounding city.

Traffic noise and sirens are muffled by ancient oaks, while late-season dragonflies sweep over hawthorns laden with blood-red haws as a kestrel hovers, head down, searching for field voles hiding in the tufty grasses.

Cities across Scotland considering similar addiction schemes as plans approved for Hunter Street facility

Cities across Scotland are considering setting up their own safe injecting facilities after authorities in Glasgow gave the official go-ahead to the UKas first drug consumption room.

aAll eyes are on Glasgow,a said Allan Casey, Glasgow city councilas addictions convener, after the plans were approved on Wednesday morning by a joint committee of NHS and council officials.

Danger-to-life warning issued as first named storm of autumn damages buildings and disrupts travel

Gusts of 70mph were recorded as the first named storm of the autumn, Agnes, swept across Britain and Ireland, damaging buildings, causing travel delays and leaving homes without power.

The Met Office issued severe weather warnings covering much of the UK, where strong winds and heavy rain were expected on Wednesday evening and into Thursday.

Campaigners including Greta Thunberg had called for halt to Rosebank project involving Oslo-listed Equinor

Britain has given the go-ahead to develop the UKas biggest untapped oilfield off Shetland, sparking outrage from environmental campaigners.

The UK oil and gas regulatoras decision to grant the Oslo-listed Equinor and the British firm Ithaca Energy permission to develop the Rosebank oil and gas field in the North Sea was condemned by the Green party MP Caroline Lucas as athe greatest act of environmental vandalism in my lifetimea.

aBlight on the landscapea in Greenwich lacks promised gardens, childrenas play areas and accessibility for wheelchair users

Buildings rarely look as good as the airbrushed architectsa visualisations produced to persuade planners to grant permission. Extra sharp highlights, implausibly blue skies and deeper colours are all part of the dark arts of the computer-generated rendering.

But the gulf between what was proposed for an apartment complex rising 23 storeys above the Thames in south-east London and what was actually built has finally proved too much.

Kellie Pooleas heart stopped after entering 10.7C water in Derbyshire therapy session, inquest rules

A senior coroner has expressed concern about the lack of regulation of cold water immersion therapy, after ruling that a womanas death was as a result of an undiagnosed heart condition triggered by the water.

Kellie Poole, 39, died when her heart stopped shortly after entering the River Goyt in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, on 25 April 2022.

• Senior officers convened in 2013 to hear aunbelievably bada news about relationship
• Prosecutors did not hear evidence from victim before deciding not to charge officer for misconduct
• Woman not told true identity of man with whom she has a child until 2020, when they were engaged

The Crown Prosecution Service decided not to pursue charges against an undercover police officer who deceived a woman into a 19-year relationship without even hearing evidence from the victim in the case.

The CPS, which says its fundamental role is to support victims and protect the public, was informed in 2014 that an undercover officer at Avon and Somerset police had used his undercover identity to deceive the woman, who was innocent of any crime, into a long-term relationship.

Landlord British Land says decision will knock earnings for six months to next March

Facebookas parent company, Meta, has paid APS149m to break its lease on a central London office building, in the latest sign of large corporates cutting back on workspace amid the post-pandemic boom in hybrid working.

The decision comes just two years after the tech firm committed to occupying the site owned and recently redeveloped by British Land at 1 Triton Square near Regentas Park.

Trump is effectively aout of businessa in New York, Michael Cohen says, after judge rules business fortune built on rampant fraud

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Donald Trumpas real estate empire could collapse alike falling dominoesa, experts believe, following a New York judgeas ruling that the former presidentas business fortune was built on rampant fraud and blatant lies.

According to Michael Cohen, his former attorney and fixer, Trump is already effectively aout of businessa in New York after Judge Arthur Engoron on Tuesday rescinded the licenses of the Trump Organization and other companies owned by Trump and his adult sons, Eric and Don Jr.

Even a short shutdown would jeopardize the work of potentially thousands of air traffic controllers and other key employees, secretary Buttigieg says

• Republicans pushing for shutdown astuck on stupida
• Trumpas business empire could collapse alike falling dominoesa after ruling

US soldier Travis King, who fled to North Korea in July, is in American custody after being expelled by Pyongyang into China, according to US officials.

North Koreaas KCNA state news agency said King had been expelled after he confessed to illegally entering the country. It said the soldier harboured ill feelings over inhumane treatment and racial discrimination within the US army.

This is genuinely new a I donat think itas ever happened before, a president on a picket line. Candidates do it frequently and prominent senators, but not a president.

Many say US failed to prevent crisis, which has left 120,000 ethnic Armenians in limbo as Azerbaijan moves to take control of Nagorno-Karabakh region

The night before the Republican presidential debate, hundreds of Armenian Americans demonstrated outside of the California debate location, calling on GOP candidates to speak out about what they called a current genocide happening in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Across southern California, which has one of the largest Armenian diaspora populations in the world, residents expressed heartbreak and anger over what they saw as the failure of the US and Europe to prevent the current crisis, which has left the futures of an estimated 120,000 ethnic Armenians in limbo as Azerbaijan moves to take full control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Region at centre of Messier 87 galaxy captured by the Event Horizon Telescope in motion

Astronomers have captured the first direct evidence of a black hole spinning, providing new insights into the universeas most enigmatic objects.

The observations focus on the supermassive black hole at the centre of the neighbouring Messier 87 galaxy, whose shadow was imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope. Like many supermassive black holes, M87 features powerful jets that are launched from the poles at close to the speed of light into intergalactic space.

Two-thirds say news about Black people is more negative than news about other racial and ethnic groups, Pew survey finds

A majority of Black Americans say that their communities are unfairly depicted in news coverage, according to a sweeping new survey on Wednesday.

Nearly two-thirds of respondents observed that their community received more negative coverage than other racial and ethnic groups, the Pew Research Center survey found. Roughly four in 10 surveyed said that the media not only stereotyped Black people but also felt that they saw racist and racially insensitive coverage sometimes or fairly often.

Senate majority leader says fellow Democrat has fallen away shorta of senatorial standards but stops short of calling for resignation

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday he was adisturbeda by the fraud indictment against his fellow Democratic Senator, Bob Menendez, and that the New Jersey lawmaker has fallen away shorta of senatorial standards.

Menendez pleaded not guilty earlier in the day to charges of taking bribes from three New Jersey businessmen, as calls for his resignation from his fellow Democrats escalated.

Travis King transferred across border to China, where he was handed to US embassy and will be returned home

Travis King, an American soldier who fled across the border from South Korea to North Korea in July, is back in US custody, officials said on Wednesday.

According to senior administration officials, King crossed the Chinese border on Wednesday, and Chinese authorities handed him to the US embassy, who then arranged for the army private to be flown to a US military base in the region.

Tests at Cern refute suggestion that antigravity might apply to antimatter, showing instead it also falls downwards

Galileo put gravitational theory to the test by dropping balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Four hundred years on, scientists have performed a higher tech version of the experiment to demonstrate for the first time that antimatter also falls downwards.

The study, by scientists at Cern, showed conclusively that gravity pulls antihydrogen downwards and that, at least for antimatter, antigravity does not exist.

Speaking of Ukraine war, Clinton said atoo bad Vladimir, you brought it on yourselfa, to which Kremlin pointed out 2009 mistake

Hillary Clinton needled Vladimir Putin over Nato enlargement as she returned to the state department for the unveiling of her official portrait on Tuesday night.

By early Wednesday morning, the Kremlin had fired back, reminding Clinton of an old gaffe about US-Russian relations.

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Sam Bankman-Fried, the jailed former cryptocurrency billionaire known for his casual appearance, has asked a US judge for permission to dress up for his forthcoming fraud trial.

In a Tuesday night court filing, Bankman-Friedas lawyers asked a judge to order US marshals and Brooklyn jail officials to provide their client with three suit jackets and pairs of slacks to wear in the courtroom.

Republican presidential debate is being held at the 40th presidentas library, but some say Reaganas party is no longer recognizable

Tourists posed for photos beside the presidential seal, peered inside the cockpit, studied the nuclear football and gazed at a desk where a aRonald Reagana jacket slung over the chair, page of handwritten notes and jelly bean jar made it appear as if the 40th US president could saunter back at any moment.

Air Force One is the star attraction at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California. But on Wednesday it is competing for attention with a curving Starship Enterprise-style stage set featuring seven lecterns and microphones for the second Republican presidential primary debate.

Anti-abortion activists lost every referendum on the issue in 2022 and the right is scrambling to find a way to talk about a political hot potato

The post-Roe v Wade battle over abortion rights may just torpedo Republicansa shot at the White House next year, and they know it.

Anti-abortion activists lost every abortion-related voter referendum last year, while ire over the fall of Roe has been credited with boosting Democrats in the 2022 midterms. Now, Republicans in the presidential primary are scrambling to figure out how to talk about and legislate abortion.

State bill would address trauma by amending housing, labor and education codes to explicitly prohibit discrimination, leaders say

California could soon become the first state to ban discrimination on the basis of caste, propelling a growing civil rights movement to its biggest stage yet.

In recent years, efforts to ban caste discrimination have become increasingly widespread. Pending approval from Governor Gavin Newsom, the ban in California would follow the likes of Seattle and dozens of college campuses nationwide a including the 23-school California state university system a to explicitly define acastea and add it to a list of protected identities.

Youngest ever Federal Trade Commission chief and antitrust scholar is suing Amazon in latest effort to take on big tech a not always with success

Lina Khan has argued for years that the time has come to rein in some of the worldas largest tech companies. On Tuesday, she made one of her most high-profile moves when the agency she chairs, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.

Khan, 34, was appointed as chair of the FTC in 2021, becoming the youngest person in history and the most progressive in more than a decade to be appointed to the position.

Canadian researchers show unhoused people donat waste money on atemptation goodsa a and hope to alter public opinion

In 2002, the then San Francisco supervisor Gavin Newsom proposed legislation to cut welfare assistance to nearly 3,000 homeless people living in the city from $395 a month to $59 a month, and divert the budgetary savings toward shelters and other services. It was promoted with the name aCare Not Casha.

Newsomas campaign tied the unconditional payments to drug and alcohol abuse. As the San Francisco voteras guide spelled out: a[H]omeless people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol end up spending their welfare checks on their addictions instead of meeting their basic needs.a The framing worked. The measure passed with nearly 60% of the vote, and Newsom used the publicity to propel his political career to San Francisco mayor and, ultimately, California governor.

Newsomas framing was just a different iteration of an old message: it doesnat help to give poor people money. As that thinking goes, the unhoused, Ronald Reaganas awelfare queensa and those with substance abuse issues will just waste it.

The acclaimed series, co-created by Taika Waititi, is ending after three seasons, leaving behind an important milestone for Indigenous representation

Reservation Dogs bids farewell with a funeral. Thatas the perfect note to go out on for the cheeky, uproarious and profoundly moving coming-of-age comedy about Indigenous teens in Oklahoma, which is streaming its final episode this week.

Anyone who has been following the celebrated Peabody-winning series since it debuted two years ago knows that a funeral can be a joyous occasion a a chance for the tight-knit community in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, played by a sprawling and delightful ensemble cast, to gather and honour a life that isnat ending so much as discovering a new beginning. There is no sense of finality in Reservation Dogs, because those who pass become spirits, and those spirits tend to hang around, for the jokes and the vibes.

Made in wool and covered in sequins, this Miu Miu underwear will not only break the bank a it will also probably be really uncomfortable

Name: The worldas most expensive knickers.

Cost: $5,600 (about APS4,600).

aWhen I told Americans I was Canadian, they used to say, aOh, do you live in an igloo?a So when I saw this hotel room in Edmonton, I knew we had to book ita

In the summer of 2011, thanks to a grant from Canada Council for the Arts, I spent four months driving from British Columbia to Newfoundland for what became my Oh Canada! project. Having moved from my native Toronto to New York in my mid-20s, Iad spent 14 years in the US, travelling more widely there than I ever had in the country of my birth. So this adventure was an opportunity to discover and photograph Canadians outside the big cities.

My dad tagged along for some of the trip, and I was joined by my mum for a couple of weeks. Neither of us had ever been to Alberta before. We went to a Star Trek festival, visited museums populated by stuffed gophers and creepy dolls, and explored a replica pioneer village. This picture was taken at the Fantasy Land hotel in West Edmonton Mall. People who grew up in Edmonton told me they would rent rooms there for birthday parties or prom nights. There were a lot of themed rooms, including one with an igloo-shaped bed. As soon as I saw that, I knew we had to book it.

Scarlett Johansson is also among the famous names who have whatas known as ornithophobia. But where did it begin?

aBirds are so foreign to us a thereas not one body part that looks like ours,a Olivia Rodrigo recently told Rolling Stone magazine with a straight face. The gen Z pop sensation went on: aEveryoneas all afraid about aliens and shit. Theyare like, aWhat are the aliens going to look like?a Iam like, aWe have birds on our planet, and weare not scared of them. Weare fine!aa

Rodrigo is not the only celebrity whose relationship with the avian community is strained. Lucille Ball saw some sparrows in the window on the day she found out her father had died. For the rest of her life, she stayed away from bird-printed art and decor.

Mast Quay II tenants may need to find new homes after Greenwich ordered demolition of tower complex

Renters at a cluster of new Thameside apartment complex expressed shock on Wednesday after the Royal Borough of Greenwich ordered the aunprecedenteda demolition of 204 homes over what it said were a series of planning breaches.

Many residents at the Mast Quay Phase II development in Woolwich first learned the news from journalists after the local authority announced on Monday that the developer, Comer Homes Group, must raze the buildings because of 26 major deviations from the original planning consent. It only opened last year in a borough with a social housing waiting list of more than 20,000 households. The council says the renters may need to find new homes.

Hulme Crescents was Europeas biggest housing estate, and soon deemed its worst. But a vibrant squatter community moved in a along with Mick Hucknall a to make a countercultural mecca

aHulme was a failed utopian dream on a council estate,a says the DJ Luke Una. aA city within a city. Like nowhere else Iave ever seen.a

Una lived in Manchesteras Hulme Crescents in the late 80s and early 90s. Constructed in 1972, the vast brutalist estate was the largest public housing development in Europe and could house up to 13,000 people. Intended as a futuristic blueprint for social housing, design and safety flaws became apparent within two years. In 1974, a child died falling from one of the easily climbable balconies. Cockroaches were plentiful, the heating system unaffordable, and residents were soon petitioning to be re-housed.

At just 37 minutes, Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Dev Patel and Richard Ayoade never get beyond the two-dimensional

Wes Andersonas new short for Netflix is a slight piece of amusement based on Roald Dahl; at 37 minutes long, its brevity perhaps exposes or even creates a flimsiness in his signature style that in a longer film would have more space to breathe and parade itself. And perhaps this could just as easily have been a full-length feature.

It is Andersonas second Dahl adaptation, after the animated Fantastic Mr Fox from 2009. This is not one of Dahlas famous childrenas tales, but instead from a 1977 collection intended for older teens: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, twisty stories halfway in tone between his young fiction and the cynical, macabre adult pieces with which he started out, and maybe the nearest Dahl came to YA. And yet thereas something gentle and almost anodyne in the denouement a atypical for both Dahl and Anderson.

Exclusive: Kyiv says Iranian drones used by Russia in Ukraine have various European components

• The experts dismantling bombs for clues to Putinas arms supply

Iranian kamikaze drones used in the latest attacks on Ukrainian cities are filled with European components, according to a secret document sent by Kyiv to its western allies in which it appeals for long-range missiles to attack production sites in Russia, Iran and Syria.

In a 47-page document submitted by Ukraineas government to the G7 governments in August, it is claimed there were more than 600 raids on cities using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) containing western technology in the previous three months.

A century-old institute that used to focus on criminal cases is studying Russiaas weapons, and where parts are coming from

• Revealed: Europeas role in making of Russiaas drones

Oleksandr gently manoeuvred a piece of circuit board under the microscope, watching as the intricate network of chips and tiny wires was rendered in large on an adjacent screen.

Three shiny silver letters came into focus: aFSBa a a jumbo-size rendition of a tiny hologram sticker on the board, hardly visible to the naked eye, showing it had passed through the quality control procedure of the Russian security agency.

• UAF condemns Uefaas plans to readmit Russia under-17 teams
• England and Poland say they will also not play against Russia

Ukraine has said it will not play in tournaments involving Russian teams after Uefa announced plans to reinstate Russiaas under-17 sides to European competitions.

In a statement the Ukrainian Association of Football (UAF) urged Uefa to reconsider its decision and urged other countries not to play against Russian teams.

The company is calling it a ade factoa ban a and it could reshape the housing market in residentsa favour

New York Cityas crackdown on Airbnb, which was enforced earlier this month, has been described as a ade facto bana by the company. The tough restrictions, designed to bring back thousands of rental properties to the housing market for city residents to live in, will be closely scrutinised by politicians in cities worldwide. Many argue that Airbnbas exponential growth a it is now valued at close to $100bn a is a key factor behind the soaring inflation in property prices and rents that is fuelling a global housing crisis. They will be hoping that interventions like New Yorkas will show them a way to take back cities across mainland Europe and the UK for people who actually live in them.

With more than 6m properties in 100,000 cities rented out through Airbnb, many politicians are beginning to recognise that the huge number of homes lost to short-term lets booked on digital platforms is inextricably linked to the housing crisis. It is further pushing up already unaffordable rents for people living in cities and in tourist areas with large numbers of second homes that are rented out.

Anna Minton is the author of Big Capital: Who is London for? and reader in architecture at the University of East London

Several senior officials have conspicuously vanished. But it is ordinary people, especially Uyghurs, who are most vulnerable

In 1971, Lin Biao, hailed by China as Mao Zedongas successor, fell from grace, fled the country and was killed in an aircrash in Mongolia. Despite his prominence, it was weeks before the public was told of his death, and months before any explanation was offered. The recent spate of disappearances from Chinaas top echelons is hardly as seismic. They have happened in calmer political waters, far from the Cultural Revolutionas turmoil. But they speak to the way that politics still operates in Beijing. The glaring absences of senior officials are eventually followed by a belated narrative of their downfall in the rumour mill and then state media.

When Qin Gang, the foreign minister, vanished from public view in June, it was particularly conspicuous given his diplomatic role. It was almost a month before authorities confirmed that he had been removed from his post. A few weeks later, Chinaas defence minister, Li Shangfu, also failed to appear at scheduled meetings with foreign officials. Reuters has reported that he is being investigated over corruption in military procurement. The two most senior generals overseeing nuclear and conventional land-based missiles had already been replaced at the beginning of August. One was reportedly taken away by corruption investigators.

Adult workers are demanding a fairer slice of corporate profits a so child labor is a way to increase and undercut the labor pool

This July the body of 16-year-old Duvan Tomas Perez abecame entangleda in meat processing machinery in Mississippi, according to a statement from Mar-Jac Poultry, the company where the boy was working. Perez was too young to be working there, according to Mar-Jac, which blamed an outside staffing company for failing to verify Perezas age and identity. Perez was not the first worker to die at the plant in recent years, and he was not the first 16-year-old to die at work in the US this summer.

American legislators should be working to crack down on child labor, here and abroad, but instead, politicians a including Democrats a in at least 11 states have introduced or passed bills that weaken child labor laws. At a time when adult workers are demanding a fairer slice of the increasingly behemoth pie of corporate profits, child labor is a capitalist work-around to increase the labor pool and lower the wages of all those who have to work for a living.

Iam embarrassed to be writing an anti-child labor article in the year 2023, as if this is some Charles Dickens novel leaking gruel and cruel men. It is not as if child labor had ever disappeared, of course; children around the world toil in fast-fashion sweatshops and among the mountains of garbage in other countries but produced by Silicon Valley. This is unfortunately where capitalism is heading, and has always been heading: children competing with their parents for jobs amid the ruins of societies we sacrificed for profit. But for awhile it seemed like child labor might have escaped the empire to live primarily in its colonial subjects.

Akin Olla is a contributing opinion writer at the Guardian US

We only loved non-fungible tokens a now all but worthless a during a pandemic peak of online loneliness. What will the next craze look like?

With last weekas report that 95% of them are now worthless, I think itas just about safe to say that the NFT moment is finally over. Phew. There really was a six-week period at the start of last year when I thought I was going to have to attach my digital soul for ever to a really bad picture of a monkey with a tentacle coming out of its nose and mouth. I kept practising saying, aNo, itas actually quite cool! Itas good. And it only cost me about as much as a car!a in the mirror a lot, with a ghoulish rictus grin.

NFT, as was probably explained to you hundreds of times in the period from January 2021 to about May 2022, stands for anon-fungible tokena, and essentially means that you can buy a code that says you own a digital asset, which is then stored on the blockchain, a sort of centralised public transaction ledger. There was a lot of hyped future uses for this technology, but for the most part it was used to buy jpegs of monkeys, or maybe sometimes a lion.

Prisoners are bigger due to steroids. Spice turns inmates into zombies. And with social media they might know where we live

Working in a prison is like going through a meat grinder. You come out at the end of a shift with your head feeling completely mashed. One of the first incidents I remember is a prisoner sitting in his cell cutting his arm because he wanted me to get him a cigarette. He knew exactly what to do without putting his life at risk.

Things in prisons have changed a lot since then. Prisoners are much bigger than they were 30 years ago due to use of steroids inside. And they are more likely to be in gangs.

In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org

One in five of us are reluctant to make flattering remarks. After an awkward moment with a stranger, I am among them

Had I read the findings of a new survey about peopleas reluctance to give compliments before last week, I might have despaired of my fellow humans. One in five of us, apparently, fear bestowing compliments, particularly concerning a personas looks, dress sense or work achievements.

What have we come to that we are scared to brighten someone elseas day with our admiration? But, like I said, that was before. As in, before the other day when I had the unedifying experience of having a compliment to a stranger backfire on me.

Anita Chaudhuri is a freelance journalist

• Seven-time All-Star requested trade from Portland in July
• ESPN say Phoenix Suns also involved in trade

The Milwaukee Bucks look like they will have a formidable duo at their disposal with reports they have acquired seven-time All-Star Damian Lillard to play alongside two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo.

ESPNas Adrian Wojnarowski reports that the Portland Timbers will receive Milwaukeeas 2029 unprotected first-round draft pick, and unprotected Bucks swap rights in 2028 and 2030 as well as Jrue Holiday, Deandre Ayton and Toumani Camara. The Phoenix Suns are also part of the deal and will receive Jusuf Nurkic, Grayson Allen, Nassir Little and Keon Johnson.

• All the latest from St Jamesa Park, 8pm BST kick-off
• Follow all the third-round ties on our live scores page

1 min Peep peep! City kick off from left to right as we watch. Looks like their shape is 4-3-3 with Grealish and Bobb playing wide.

aNever mind mouth-moistening ties, Rob!a weeps Justin Kavanagh. aThe very first one on your list has just induced dreadful flashbacks to the 1977 League Cup final between Villa and Everton, that went on forever (well three games). As a young footie fan, I suffered through all these on the telly and (I think) one on the radio. And if memory serves, the ref even called the two captains together at one point to remind them to, you know, play a bit as the country was watching on. My mouth has now gone dry just thinking about it. By the end of it all, I couldnat even care who won or lost. I was a soccer cynic. The horror. The horror.a

While far from universally loved, the American is a guaranteed attention-grabber in a sport which finds itself in turmoil

Brooks Koepka doesnat like you. Perhaps Brooks Koepka doesnat strictly know you yet, but for a man of Koepkaas unbendable principles this point would be a mere formality. Perhaps at this early stage of your enmity it is more correct to say he disapproves of you. You are the autograph hunter hassling him after practice. You are the person who left the irritating comment on Instagram. You are the driver who cut him up on I-95. Maybe not you specifically, but someone like you. And letas be real, it probably will be you one day. Best give him a wide berth just to be safe.

You donat even need to interact directly with Koepka to get on his wrong side. Earlier this year he was at a Florida Panthers ice hockey game when he became exasperated at one of the home teamas defenders. aEkblad, you suck!a Koepka shouted from the stands in a video that was lighting up the internet within minutes. aFucking traffic cone!a

• Starting QB Zach Wilson has struggled badly for New York
• Colin Kaepernick offers to help team through bad patch

The New York Jets signed veteran quarterback Trevor Siemian to the practice squad Tuesday, giving them an experienced, if unspectacular, backup to embattled starter Zach Wilson. As the team announced the news, it emerged that Colin Kaepernick had written a letter asking to be part of the team.

The Jets announced the move for Siemian after the 31-year-old passed a physical at the Jetsa practice facility. Wilson has struggled badly since taking over for Aaron Rodgers, who tore his left achilles tendon four snaps into his debut with New York.

The Oakland Aas are closing in on 110 losses this season. But when the franchise was on the east coast they made defeat an art form

Itas been a demoralizing season for fans of the Oakland Athletics. The team announced its intention to leave for Las Vegas, and on the field, the Aas are wrapping up a historically bad year, playing barely over .300.

But this isnat the worst Aas team in history. More than a century ago, playing nearly 3,000 miles away, the Philadelphia Athletics had not only the worst record in franchise history, but the worst record of any Major League Baseball team in the modern era.

Breakaway clubas fans have never forgiven Red Bull for their treatment and vented their feelings in the Austrian Cup

Before kick-off at the MGG Arena, south of Salzburg, a banner went up among the fans in violet and white. In block white capitals, it read: aFor you only success and money count, you characterless bull-swines!a As the smoke rising from the flares behind the home goal made the stands look like a cauldron, a deafening chorus of anti-Red Bull chants echoed around the ground. Austria Salzburg fansa pre-match tifo showed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the cityas most famous son, decked out in violet and white, bringing his instrument crashing down on the head of a bloated red bull. Underneath it, supporters displayed another banner, which read: aIn Salzburg, we play first violin.a

Austria Salzburg fansa animosity towards Red Bull can be traced back 18 years to the companyas takeover at the Stadion Wals-Siezenheim, now known as the Red Bull Arena, after which disillusioned supporters broke away and set up a phoenix club, which on Tuesday met Red Bull Salzburg for the first time. The origins of the feud made it hard not to view this as a clash between corporate power and fan power, cash and community, and two fundamentally different visions of the game.